Reeling apparatus.



c R. UEBBLMESSBR.

REELING- APPARTUS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 7, 1908.

989,736. Patented Apr. 18,1911.

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'To all whom it may concern.' I l Beit known that I, CHARLES R. UEBEL-MESSER, a subject of the Emperor of Germany,-residing inthe borough ofManhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have iiivented'a certainnew and useful Improvement infReeling Apparatus, of which.

the following is'a specification.

My present inventionhas relation to an improved means for the supportand operal' tion of flexible 'material in .ribbon or tapelike form' forvarious purposes.

In a variety.' of artsnotably in connection with automatic pianos andJmoving picturev machines'an'dmachine camerasan important element of theapparatus used gen-V erally takest'lie form of' a long ribbon offlexiblev material, such as paper or Celluloid, which is repeatedlycoiled and iincoiledl in the course of operation of a given machine.Usually it' has been found necessary to. carry 'these ribbons throughthemachinefrom one v Coil or veel to another and 'torewnd them pon thferst reel t0 Pre-Pare for repetitionV of operation.

' My present invention .relation to iinprovedyapparatus applicable toanydevice wherein a long ribbon or tape isA t'obe re peatedlywound'froin one coil to another,

whether as an element of operation ina machinel or not, and itsprincipalV advantage is that-by use ofV my invention a` very long tapemay be unwoiind repeatedly'in such a manner as to obviate'all necessityAof rewinding between operations7 and at the saine 4time to insure/vatall timesfan equal movement of tapewith respecttoboththe supply reel andthe receiving reel. f J

I have herein showiimy invention as aph 'v plied to the 'picture-bearingtapesof kinetoscopes and the like, but Vit is to be understood thatmyinvention is not confined in its scope to thisn particularapplication.

My invention isillustrated in a preferred forni in theaccompanyingdrawings, where- Figure 1 Vshows myiinproved a parat-us asapplied to a kinetoscope. in si Fig. 2 is a top plan view, of.the samewith the reel boxes removed, Fig. 3 is a perj 'spective view ef thebarrel of the receiving lreel and F ig, 4 is a like view of'one form ofrbbonbearing sleeve shown in position to be applied to the barrel.- Fig.5 showsa .horizontal revolving n iay'be had to the interior.

under side of -this `equivalent guides, are suspended. The rib bon 3passes between these guides bywhichv "it is kept along the top o f thetransverse guide bar 7 SSIG'NORy TO AMERICAN MOVING serial No. 419,646.

. frictional driving arrangement in sectional plan view.

in Figs. 1 and 2 there is shown the ex? tei-nal easing or framework of amoving picture machine .or kinetoscope at 1, the lens holder beingvshown at 2. The .details'of mechanism eiiiployedin the'machine form nopartof the present invention and they 'are therefore not shown herein,except-to the vextent madeJ necessary to make my present improvementclear.. '4 'v The pieturebearingtape, 3, is` supplied from a free coillying on its side within a coil. carrier 4, preferably protectedby asuitably shaped reel b'oX 5, provided with aeover 6v whereby accesstapeor ribbon 3, the inner end of the loose coill is drawn out over asmooth transverse guide bar 7 extei ding between'sides of the carrier4.. A brid one standard 8 `to the other and fromV the blar two rollers8b, or

from doubling back against itself The-rollers bear upon the edges of thetape or ribbon 3 and maybe called edge guides. Afterjpassing-over thetransverse guide bar 7 and between the edge guides 8b, the rib i bonpreferably passes .forward between guide rollers 9, when it is carrieddownward to the usual, toothed roller 10 on Athe horizontal shaft 11,which roller, when turned i in' the direction of the arrow applied to itin'Fig. l, draws theta e out ofthe carrier 4 so as to form a slack endasshown at 12 in Fig. 1. Aninterinittently moving toothed roller-13 isdriven in a well knownmanner to move the ribbon forward in rapid jerksand the tapeafter lpassing this roller 13 is delivered by the toothedroller 14 to the recciving reel 15 Where it is wound in a form to betransfeired without change back to the carrier 11 preparatory tocommencement of 'a new operation. 1 It will be obvious-that, v. sincethe tu pe is-drawn from'the innerY convolutions of the coil' 3insteadojf from the outside, this coil will alwaysbe" r'eady for arenewed uncoiling without its being 'neces-l sary to spend anyltimeandlftijoiible in rewindingith tape..

I havefonnd ythat in practice, and. partic- N. Y., CORPORATION or NEW APatented Apre 18,1911.

ln iincoiling the ging bar 8a eli-tends from l ularly where long ribbonsare handled (as I i. ,tape4 is drawn sharply permits slip to allow forlost'motion and to I the pinion 24 on the shaft 11 which carriesV whichasprocket chain a sprocket wheel 27 'ing shaft 28 from which boththe'carrier 4 28, whereby motion l the uprightl shaft and carrier Y* 4.A sprocket wheel 33 is fast upon the lfor drawing,T the ribbon out ofthe latter;

I tion from said l preferably turned' in the direction indicated`pinicne18 on ,wheel 19. This' last namedgear'drives the -Geneva' gear2O which operates the inter- `lar wheel which drives the reel l5.' It

in kinetoscopes) it is essential to successful j operation that the coilcarrier vand receiving reel should be connectedby positivelyacting-gears-as distinguished from means depending merely uponfrictioii--wliereby every movement ineither direction of the carrier isaccompanied by an equal rotation of the reel and vice versa. Ilie reasonfor this is that, if the reel does not move as fast as the carrier, thislatter will unwind within itself and soonjget the tape into such a,position that it will not pass smoothly outv over the guide '7; while,if tape is withdrawn from the 'carrier more rapidly than is conipensatedfor byrotation of the latter, the

around and close against said guide so as to bind.

In\ its preferred form my invention comprises me'ans external to thereel and carrier combined withy gearing for transmitting nioexter'nalmeans to the common driving devices for the carrier and reel, saidgearing including a frictional member which prevent undue strain uponthe tape.

The principal driving means for all the parts may take any well knownforni, and in the drawings I have shown a crank, 1G,

the arrow in Fig. 1 -In the specific form" shown in the drawings, thecrankl turns a large vgear 17 whereby the toothed roller 414 is driven,which gear 17 also drives the the same shaft with a gear mittentlymoving toothed roller 18. The shaft 21, carries inclined toothed gears22, 23, at its'opposite ends, by means of which motion is transmittedfrom the pinion 18 .to

the toothed roller 10. The shaft'll also carries the driving sprocketwheel 25 from k26 carries motion to carried loosely on drivand the reel1 5 are operated.v -A friction disk 29 is fast upon the driving shaft28, and the sprocket wheel 27 is pressed against said 'disk by anadjustable spring 29a, (see Fig. i. v5.) Motion is from the sprocketwheel thus transmitted frictionally 27 tothe shaft 28. v The carrier 4is mounted upon an upright revolving shaft 30 carrying at its lower endthe 'bevel gear 31 whi vlimeshes with a similar bevel wheel 32 on theendy of the shaft is transmitted from the'. shaft28 to shaft 28 and asprocket chain 34 positively transmits motion from saidlwheelto a simijside flange of the reel 15 is shown,

which/the end of the tape cured. Thus, when the sleeve 1s in place` thez tape,

saidcarrier past said guides,

will thus be seen that power` is suppliedpfrom the shaft of' the ribbonwithdrawing roller 10, through a frictional. driving wheel 29 tothe'comm'on dri-ving shaft 28 of both carrier Lland reel l5; and thatthe sprocket wheels 33, 85, chain 84, shaft 28, bevel gears 31, 82 andupright shaft manent engagement between the carrier and BOsupply apositive per-v reel, whereby equal and simultaneous movements of thetwoare assured at all times.

While 'my invention broadly considered covers any desired constructionof the receiving reel consistent with Ithe claims here'- of, I preferthe construction shown in Figs. Sand 4 whereby certain advantageshereinafter mentioned are secured. In Fig. f3` one together with theattached barrel 36 made of thin metal and hollow. Certain portions ofthis metal are struck up so as to project slightly outward, formingspring ears, 37, lunder either of which the end of the tape 3 may beintroduced to. secure the same temporarily when it is to be coiled uponthe reel.

. `IVhilc the construction so'far describe-d is suiiicicnt for carryingout my broad invention. I prefer to'employ the supplementarv sleeve 38niade of spring metal and split longitudinally as shown at 39. Thissleeve is adapted to tit closely over the barrel 86, j

and is provided with a cut out portion 40 which Cstraddlestheprojections equivalents for this purpose, engaging with them so that thesleeve 38 always turns with the reel 15. As shown -in Fig. 4, the sleeve38 is provided with spring catches 41 under may be seclosely overit, theturned up tape is wound 42 serving to hold the tape edge projections inplace on one side.

the carrier 4, the sleeve 38 is slipped off .of the barrel 36 and canthen be compressed, so as to be easily withdrawn' from the interior oftheccil.

prising arotary carrierfor a coil of tape, a

transverse guide-barover said'carrier, a pair the edges of said ofrollers-disposedv at right-angles to sai guide-bar for engaging v andmeans foruncoiling tape from its withdrawing it `from inner convolutionsand substantially escribed.

prising a rotary carrier for a coil of tape,

a-receiving reel, positive gearing connecting said carrier' and reel soas to preclude relativeslip and insure equal rotation of the two,-

IVhen the tape is to beremoved from the reel' to be replaced within' A;device of the character described comi- 37 or their' y ics 110 -Variousmodifications and changes can be 1, A device of the character describedcommeans for withdrawing tape from said carrier and delivering 'it tosald receiving reel and motion -transmitting gearing between saidwithdrawing means and ksaid reel and carrier comprising an elementpermitting lost motion between the reel and carrier on one hand and thewithdrawing means on the other hand, substantially as described.

3. A device ofthe character described comprising a rotary carrier for acoil of tape, a receiving reel, positive gearing connecting said carrierand reel so as to precludelrelative slip. and insure lequal rotation ofthev two, means for withdrawing tape from said carrier and delivering itto .said receiving reel and gearing including a friction member forytransmitting motion from said with- 'drawing means to said carrier andreel, substantially as described.

.4. A device ofthe Ycharacter'described comprising a rotary carrier foracoil of tape, a receiving reel, means for withdrawing tape from saidcarrier and delivering it to said receiving .-reel, main drivingmechanism,

`positive gearing for transmitting motion from said main drlvlngmechanism to said withdrawing means and frictional gearing fortransmitting motion from the driving ing reel, a'driving shaft Vvforsaid withdrawing means, and power transmitting gear be tween said twodriving shafts comprising an elementadapted to permit of relative lostmotion between the two, substantially as described.

6. A device ofthe character described comprising a rotary carrier for acoil of tape, a receiving reel, a common driving shaft for the two, agear wheel loose on said shaft, a friction disk fast on the shaft, aspring pressing said wheel and disk together, means for withdrawing tapefrom said carrier, driving mechanism therefor and an operativeconnection between said driving mechanism and said loose gear wheel,substantially as described.

CHARLES R. UEBELMESSER. Witnesses:

H. S. MACKAYE, M. A. BUTLER.

